Carey Hall Preschool

🚀💫 Out of this World Learning ! 👨‍🚀🚀💫

This term at CareyHall Preschool we have had an amazing journey through space ! 🌌 we explored all 8 planets , learning fun facts about each one and discovering just how special our earth is. 🌎

We enjoyed sharing wonderful stories about our planet , the stars and the universe sparking lots of curiosity and imagination. ⭐📚

One of our favourite activities was building our very own rocket ship from a cardboard box ! 🚀 the children worked together brilliantly developing their teamwork skills and letting their imagination take flight.

We also got creative by making Earth and other planets using tissue paper, PVA glue, paint and even tried balloon printing to create fun planet textures 🎨🎈🪐

To make our learning even more exciting the children brought in toys from home to share with their friends😊

What a fantastic term 👏

Key words we have learnt :
* Mercury
* Venus
*Earth
*Mars
*Jupiter
* Saturn
*Uranus
* Neptune
* Satellite
*Moon
* Sun ( 1.3 Million earth size planets can fit inside the sun )
* Rocket
*Astronaut

Happy St. Patricks Day 🍀🇮🇪

At nursery we celebrated with lots of creative and sensory fun 💚

Our children explored bell pepper printing to create beautiful shamrocks using green paint and a sprinkle of glitter for that extra magic 💫

We also enjoyed a themed St. Patrick Day tuff tray filled with Green, White and Orange rice to represent the Irish flag 🇮🇪. The children used bowls , spoons, funnels, tweezers, jewels and even magnifying glasses. This helped develop their fine motor skills by pouring , scooping and stiring the rice into different objects.😊

We learnt lots of new vocabulary like shamrock, leprechaun, patron Saint, Ireland, rainbow and lucky charm 🌈🌈

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Happy Mothers Day 🌸🌷🌼🌹

To celebrate all our wonderful mummies, the children created a special " Mum you are my Sunshine " Craft 🌞💛

They painted their paper plates bright yellow and brought their sunshine to life using googly eyes , heart stickers, jewels ,and their favourite glitter from our glitter shakers 💫. The children used PVA glue to stick on each sun Ray, making every creation unique and full of love .

They also explored a beautiful mother's day flower and water tuff tray , where they made special Mothers Day potions ⭐. The children enjoyed scooping and pouring , using tweezers to carefully pick up the flowers and explored the lovely scents.
They used bowls and cups to mix and pour their potions , developing their fine motor skills while having lots of fun 😊

During the activities we spent time talking about Mothers Day and sharing why we love our mummies so much . The children had the sweetest things to say 💕

Age 3 - " I love my mummy because she takes me to the shops"

Age 4 " I love my mummy because she gives me cuddles"

Age 3 " I love my mummy because she reads me stories at night "

Age 4 " I love my mummy because she makes me yummy food "

Age 3 " I love my mummy because she plays with me "

Age 2 " I love you"

How did you celebrate ? ♡

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Happy World Book Day ! 📚💫

The children enjoyed creating their very own worm bookmarks 🐛 to take home. This fun activity supported letter recognition and gave them the chance to practice writing their names with a pen as well as using a glue stick to carefully stick down the letters they found to spell their names on their worms.

We also loved seeing everyone dressed up as their favourite book characters ♡ - you all looked amazing ! The children had a wonderful time sharing their favourite stories from home with their friends and building a love for books🌞

And the fun didn't stop there ... even our Teddy bears joined in , enjoying their own cosy reading time with their favourite books in our lovely story book corner .🧸📖

We hope today has inspired a lifelong love of reading and storytelling 💕



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Saint David is the patron Saint of Wales and on March 1st people celebrated the day by having a feast to honour Wales and all things welsh😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

We celebrated St Davids Day through different activities . Some including Daffodil biscuits. We practiced our pouring, mixing and measuring skills whilst baking . The children learnt about different mathematical language such as kilo grams , teaspoon , tablespoon and used different equipment such as wooden spoons , cups and whisks for the ingredients. We also made yellow icing to go on top 💛

Throughout the week we explored St. Davids Day through tuff trays using chalk , sensory daffodil playdough and being creative through expressive arts by creating still-life painting and pictures using different materials such as tissue paper, pva glue and glitter . Helping our fine and gross motor skills grow 🌻🌞

Age 4 " my mummy loves yellow flowers"
Age 3 " I have daffodils at home "

How did you celebrate ?

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Happy Pancake Day 🥞
We had so much fun making , flipping , rolling, squashing and most importantly eating lots of yummy pancakes today. We practiced our lemon squeezing and sprinkled some sugar on the pancakes . It was delicious !

The children practiced their gross motor and hand eye coordination by flipping the pancake in the pan. We flipped REAL pancakes 😊. They even practiced number recognition as we had cardboard number bond pancakes in the tuff tray.